The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-11


scriptions indicative of their
socialist sentiments and their
ultimate purpose. On reaching the
Board of Trade, the news OF their
march preceding them, they were con-
fronted with body of police who
handled Winchester rifles in q way
which seemed to convince the anar-
chists that they would soon use them |:
and the click along the line caused
the mob to return aud retrace its steps,
for the while abandoning the effort to
awe the business men of Chicago, and
possibly to assault the building.
Again on Thanksgiving Day 1885,
this body of socialist men and women
made the streets of that city hideous
with their crys of hatred aud threats
against the people and the government.
But this time they met no official re-
sistance, and, watched by the police,
they were allowed to weary them
selves and dispense.
On May LIST, 1886, when the eight
hour movement went into effect, it
was determined an opportune time
to renew their demonstrations and,
it appears, see how far they would be
allowed to go toward the accomplish
ment of their purpose to uprOot the
institutions of society or destroy all
who oppose their plans. Incendiary
circulars were issued by the leaders,
more vituperative than ever, and their
papers grew more violent in their de-
nunciation Of employers and the gov
eminent, and present social order.
Thirty thousand men were out Of
work, Oh account Of the eight
hour strike. May 5, about $4,000
men and women, chiefly OF
of foreign birth, and socialists, met in
the Blue Island avenue, where adj
dresses were de ivered, and the excite.
ment of the populace increased to
fever heat. A raid ON the "scabs
who were working in the place OF
the strikers was advised; and finally
the cry "On to McCormick'sl" was
raised and re-echoed, till the crowd
was wild pane emonium. 1t to X
but a few minutes to make the assault
and break every window in the great
factory. A force OF policemen was
hastily driven to the scene, and failing
to dispense the mob, and meeting re-
sistance with sticks and stones from
which two policemen fell, fire
from the officers was returned by a
fire from the mob, six OF whom were
left on the field. Eleven of the rioters
were arrested; and then il was when
Spies wrote and published his famous
Revenge circular, calling the an
archists to arms" This was fol-
lowed by hand bill calling meeting
at the Haymarket, AZ 1880, May A.
There was a large assembly in re.
spouse to the call. The police, the
government and employers were de-
nounced in the severest terms by the
speakers, Spies being first, followed
by Parsons, and then Fielder was
speaking amid tumult of threats and
denunciatiOns which gave promise of
ending in another riot, when special
detail Of police came marching up to-
ward them from police headquarters,
which was only 200 yards across
the market grounds. Drawing near
the crowd, Capt. Word in loud voice
said; u" | command you in the name
of the State to dispersed" Immedi-
ately dynamite bomb was thrown
into the midst of the officers. With a
loud explosion it sent death
and wounds through the crowd,
its fragments striking thirty police of
ficers to the ground. This brought
another exchange of volleys between
the police and the mob. Sixty po-
lice were wounded and seven killed,
and nearly a hundred anarchists were
killed and woundel.
Then followed the arrest Of seven of
the leaders. Parsons Guiding arrest
for several months, finally came and
gave himself up with a bragadocio
spirit as much as to say he feared
no punishment.
The eight were tried, found guilty,